First off I would like to say hi, secondly I have never worked with pic's. Basically what I want to do is use the 8pin pic to listen to serial data stream on either 1 or 2 ports if neccessary. Data Stream (11 bit frame) StartB Data P StopB 0 XXXXXXXX X 1 First of all is it possible to read 11 bit into the 8bit port (the pdf said it was a 8bit port. If there are any resources on the web to do this please tell me. I spent several hours searching for this info but all the pic info that I found were based on the PIC16... Cheers.